Willie’s starting a biodiesel company. Here’s a decent question: The article said that BD’s average price per gallon is about $1.80, which makes it competitive at today’s fuel prices. What is its energy ratio? One of the gripes over ethanol as a gasoline substitute is that it takes more BTU’s (growing and harvesting corn, fermenting and distilling, etc) to make a gallon of ethanol than the gallon of ethanol contains. Is BD more efficient to make than ethanol? If so, I’m much more hip to BD vehicles than I am to hybrids.

Plus, BD kills two problems that hybrids don’t touch:

• Domestically produced – helps simplify foreign policy
• Jobs, jobs, jobs – Plus, it’s actually producing something from nothing, which creates wealth
• Greenhouse neutral – every bit of CO2 you make buring BD came out of the environment in the first place, unlike a hybrid buring fossil gas.

Now that I think about it, my guess is that you could use hemp-seed oil to make biodiesel. Guess Willie just (Insert marajuana joke here)